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In 1932, Strand was invited by Carlos Chavez, director of the Fine Arts Department of the Secretariat of Public Education, to document the changing landscape and people of Mexico.

During the two years Strand spent in Mexico, he traveled the countryside with his Korona and Graflex large format cameras. He explored small towns, churches, religious icons, and the people who inhabited the land. Strand, like many of the artists who were making art at the Taller de Gráfica Popular print studio, worked on this project during the period when the post-revolution government sought to establish a modern national culture that would capture Mexico’s unique character.

Check out the exhibition on campus from now until March! More info here!

Vast vistas of the tundra, sled dogs ready to run, and stark, rocky seascapes are some of the dramatic images captured in color and black and white photos by the adventurous Jilly Appleheimer in her upcoming show at Uncommon Events Gallery, 25th and Aspen Streets, Philadelphia. Her three-dimensional oil paintings of wild, fanciful flowers in exotic colors round out the exhibition.

On Friday, November 14, join Penn Art Club and SPEC Art Collective on their tour of a new exhibition on display at Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall and The Slought Foundation. The exhibition examines the work of eight artists from around the world who engage with non-traditional ideas of homeland and belonging. It will be an amazing opportunity t listen to the curators of the show itself!

The 2015 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates present in their fall exhibition TRUCE a collective showing of a diverse body of responses to the myriad of discourses and conflicts in the preceding year. Whether it be a ceasefire, armistice, peace, or a far-reaching compromise, each individual manifests their understandings of “truce” through sculpture, video, painting, drawing, photography, and new media in this remarkable exhibit.

Check out the ongoing exhibition in The Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall!